“We are experiencing a serious situation and the political parties should combine forces so as to reach a reasonable compromise,” said the executive director of the Foreign Policy Association (APE) Victor Chirilă. According to him, this reasonable compromise is a government of professionals, technocratic, nonparty members who would undertake for a short period of time to take Moldova out of the crisis, to overcome the epidemiological danger and to also prepare the country for free and fair elections that would reset the political life and would bring a new configuration of political parties, with much greater legitimacy than the parties that are represented now in Parliament.
“A government that would enjoy powerful support in Parliament for carrying out a number of exact tasks is needed. And these tasks are: 1. to contain the pandemic; 2. to stop the deepening of the economic crisis and to possibly revitalize the economy and 3. to prepare society for free and fair parliamentary elections that would offer equal conditions of political competition to all the political forces, regardless of their color and geopolitical option, so that the citizens decide who is better prepared to manage the Republic of Moldova during the next four years,” Victor Chirilă stated in an interview for RFE/RL’s Moldovan Service, being quoted by IPN.
As to the fact that the Party of Action and Solidarity and the Party “Dignity and Truth Platform” could have their images affected if they vote together with Andrian Candu’s party and with the Shor Party, the APE director said their images would be affected if they assumed governance directly. There are no dangers for these parties and the Democratic Party if they reach an agreement and form a government of technocrats and professionals who would not engage in politics and in business, but would concentrate their efforts on overcoming the serious crisis and on preparing society for new free and fair parliamentary elections.
Victor Chirilă considers snap parliamentary elections will be ultimately held, after the presidential elections, not before them as it is unreal for President Igor Dodon to tender his resignation. If the opposition politicians manage to think rationally and as statesmen, they can find a solution so as to organize free and fair elections during a short period of time.
According to him, the Chicu Government should be removed so as to stop the COVID-19 pandemic. This government shows that it cannot cope. It does not ask for foreign, European methodological and financial assistance. The foreign partners do not trust this government and the dialogue is defective. The second reason for the removal is the necessity to revitalize the economy and this can be done not with Russia, but with the assistance of the Western world, the European Union first of all.
